After a horrific nuclear assault, three soldiers band together in a special all-terrain land cruiser and head for Albany, NY-the only American city to be spared in the attack. As they travel through the post-nuke wastelands, they pick up a beautiful woman and an incorrigible teenager (Jackie Earle Haley) while battling mutant insects, packs of violent survivors and brutal electrical storms that savage the already barren plains.
